Land-packer.



C. J. ANDERSON.

LAND PACKER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.15. 1913.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

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aga 4% CARL J'. ANDEBSON, OF SANBGRN, NORTH DAKOTA,

LAND-PACKER.

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To all 'whom 2 iz may camera Be it known that ll, CARL J. ANDnRsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sanborn, in the county of Barnes and State of North Dakota, have invented a new and useful Land-Packer, of which the following is specification.

My invention relates to improvements in land paclrers adapted to be drawn over a i plowed field for purpose of pac-king down the furrows into the grooves and openings which the plow leaves partly between and partly underneath the turned furrows.

The device may be drawn by horses or other power applied directly or indirectly to it; but I prefer to attach the device to a plow so that when the plowing is done the paclring of the furrows is also done. The device may be of any size according to the number of plows used in or attaohed to a single frame; but for purpose of illustration and explanation I have in the accompanying drawing shown the packer attached to a frane in which two plows are mounted and the :Erame supported by wheels.

In said drawing, Figure 1 is a top view of a dupleX plow with my land packing device attached to it. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the roller of the land packer shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged modification of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a side view of the roller in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a partly sectional top View of the 'front half of the roller and the bail by which it is attached to the plow frame, showing further modifications.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 1 designates a frame in which two plows, 2, 2, are mounted; the 'rame is mounted on wheels 3, and 5, of which the two latter are usually inclined so as to counteraot the tendency of the moldboards to force the plows over to the left side; such inclined position being well known I have not illustrated it; and it is almost as unneccssary to mention that the plow frame is drawn by a draft bar 6, which is connected by a link 7 with an arm 8 by which the fork stem 9 of the wheel is turned in guiding the wheel 5 and said stern 9 is connected by rocker arms 10, 11 and a rod 12, with the fork stem 13 of the wheel i, so that the wheels 4 and 5 are steered in. unison according as the direction of the draft appliance 6 is changed.

l`he land packer comprises a skeleton Speeification of Letters Patent Patented Apr, 13 11915.

Application filed Becemher 15, 1313-. Serial lilo. &06,713.

roller made up of a central bar 14, which may be hollow, end-pieces 15, the bars 16, and journals 17 which are held in the arms of a fork or bail 18, having a reach 19, which is pivoted at 20 to the rear end of a draft bar 21, whose front end is pivoted at 22 to the plow rame Said draft bar may be held more or less toward either side of the plow by a brace 23, which is pivotally placed on the stem 13 and is provided with several holes 24, into either oi' which a pin 25 may be placed and passed through a hole in the draft-bar.

In all the views the bars 16 are supposed to be, in a full sized machine, made of metal and about one-half inch thick by three and one-half inches wide in radial direction of the roller. The latter dimension will of course be increased ir" the roller is very long, as may be required when the device is to be used in connection with large gang'plows having from half a dozen to a dozen or more plows in one frame; but the thiclmess of onehalf inch 1 have found to work very Satisfactorily. As for' modifications, I have shown in Figs. l and 2 that the end pieces 15 may be solid disks and the bars 16 secured thereto by screws as shown at 26 in Fig. 1; while in Figs. 3 and 1 15 are spiders having rings 15 with integral brackets or lugs 27, to which the bars are secured by bolts 28. In Fig. 5 the spiders are each formed with an annular flange 15 through which the bar-holding bolts 28 are passed in radial direction of the spider. In said view it is also shown that the journals 17 are the ends of a shaft 17 journaled in the part 1 1- and fixed by pins 29 in the arms of the bail 18. The hollow center bar 14 and the spiders may be cast in one piece or in several and put together; and if the spiders are made heavy enough to make the device of the required weight the center bar 14 may be made so much lighter, or even dispensed with.

The special advantages of this device are, that the open space between the center bar and the bars 16, 16, prevents clogging of the paeker, the narrow faces of the bars 16 cut and crush and pack the land with good efiect, the device may be disposed or adjusted toward either side of the plow, so as to make it work in proper position upon the furrows plowed, and the attaching of the device rearward oi' the plow frame enables the plow frane to be turned toward either sidevvithout getting into contact with the packing device;

rame andits front end to the plow frame V and having an 'aperture intermediate said [adapte'd to be inserted in the aperture in the draft-bar and into either one of the aper- 20 tures or perforations in the brace bar.

In testimony Whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

CAR-L J. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

LoUIs MALM, HAROLD J. MALM.

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